Today we are featuring copies and miniatures, and sometimes both, or all, at once; inspired by the photograph that somewhat improbably adorns the hallway of the local gym:

[Sage Sohier, Sculptor with model of Chuck Close in his summer studio, Norwalk, CT, 2005]

We’ll start with this nested photograph by Sage Sohier of sculptor Joe Fig creating a model of painter Chuck Close who combines colorforms-style design elements into large-scale pixilated portraits. Or, to put it another way, photograph(sculpture(painting(portrait(design)))).

Peggy Nelson is Arts Editor at HiLobrow, covering art, art-makers, and the virtual life; she was also HiLobrow's first Artist in Residence. She is a new media artist whose work involves fractured narratives in film, augmented reality, Twitter, and even objects on occasion. Follow her on Twitter at @otolythe.

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